Oh my god, I love Jimmy Eat World. [...] It was the band that we were trying to emulate, [that] we wanted to be just like.
— Hayley Williams of Paramore, BBC radio show Everything Is Emo, ep. 1 (2022)
Connection
These songs share
- A section comprised of three notes, one per measure, with two voices in harmony, where one voice descends from 3̂ to 2̂ to 1̂
- A snare drum pattern that accents the second eighth note of the third beat in each measure
- The long "A" vowel on the first syllable